| The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth 2 | 
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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $9.99
Buy New: $7.50
You Save: $2.49 (25%)
New (22) Used (24) from $3.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  73 reviews
Sales Rank: 1784
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Windows Xp
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 1.1
MPN: 302
UPC: 014633151237
EAN: 0014633151237
ASIN: B000CA5FLW
Release Date: February 28, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
Keeps you coming back December 4, 2008
Excellent Real-time strategy game. Relatively easy to get started and it keeps you interested for hours. I needed to progress save all my games as the enemy would often destroy me. An early attack works well depending on the type chosen to play. The dragons are the best to start with as they take allot to kill and destroy buildings easily but be aware of archers. The two levels of play (map and site) allow you to play either a global strategy or go head to head with the enemy on site. This gives another interesting dimension to the game. The similarity with the movie is excellent and the graphics play great homage to the movie. I don't have the first version of this game so I can't comment on any improvements between them. I have the Rise of the Witch King sequel which doesn't improve greatly on this version. Essentially the Witch King provides additional characters but with no change in game play. EA does a good job this time at producing a realistic and interesting game which I purchased and didn't regret one dime.
 awesome GET IT U WON'T REGRET TI!!!!! November 29, 2008
the multi player is my favorit part of the game. you need to be good to really like the game. I JUST LOVE IT! you can make your own heros and lots of other graet thing. so get it you wont regret it!
 Battle for Middle Earth II October 5, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Game was new, We just can't play it due to having the wrong components in our computer. Please don't hold "star" rating against seller. VERY prompt delivery. Game was what they said it was. We are happy with the Amazon store that sent it. Thanks BG
 Good Game, Bad Tech Support August 6, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Overall, this is a good game and a vast improvement over the first BFME. The inclusion of the dwarves and elves as races makes the skirmish mode more interesting.
There were a couple of things that were disappointments. First of all, I have to say that the graphics, even when set on ultra high were very disappointing and EA made no effort to improve them since the last game. The graphics where blocky and the characters' faces were all blurred out.
The largest problem was that if you are using any sort of nVidia graphics card this game usually WON'T even start. When I went through the EA support system they said, "try rebooting and enter this code." Needless to say, that didn't work. I then went to nine other third-person forums where I finally found something that I could get it to boot up.
Finally, if you save a game it won't be retrievable. I also tried looking on other forums for this but with no joy.
Good fun and a chance to be in Tolkein's world August 3, 2008
This recreation of Tolkien's world succeeds, in my opinion, at least as far as reflecting various battle scenes is concerned. It's not a first-person game, but rather a build-and-battle game. The units are well-balanced, and the game solid, though I did bring the ring to my fortress once only to have it disappear and then reappear mysteriously. I don't think Gollum was involved.
A mid-range graphics card is needed, and the interface is intuitive, and similar to Battle For Middle-earth I. They addressed many of the concerns people had with version I, for instance, now you can place buildings yourself.
It's more complex than version I too, for now archers and footsoldiers are rather critical for battling monsters, and there are some neat new monsters such as Wyrm.
It does bring an atmosphere reminiscent of Tolkien's world, but then I suppose most such games do that! Such is the influence of an author like Tolkien.
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